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By Jack Joseph Smith

Clensed This is the way we wanted the Earth as born Being no other, just before cause we came Hard rock scattered with what we would, rid ourselves of; there, where no line, is through the oval; no curve noticed, before the beyond, We have desired our flesh in ashes, equally, balancing, even suggesting a slightness toward, the almost in good in this Earth, as the slaughter Yes; while says age sight can get to the magical rocks "While as children, we were all the saint with the sword" Above the Bible, absolutely in the clouds, this worship, decending as all others trick of Christ, again equally, WAS OUR CURSE with those of peace, yes quick and dence, is the population of our mind; just for the agony is the slashing of the obstacle for that only view, of thyself, of which EVEN our granite has no perception

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This revised 'Clensed' page revisits purification, violence, sacred height, curse, agony, self-regard, and the failure of perception.

The page feels like a reworked argument rather than a clean draft. The restored curse and agony phrases sharpen the religious violence in the middle, while the granite/perception continuation makes the closing self-view stonier and more absolute.

Claude

A fuller, consolidated 'Clensed' that gathers the sequence's recurring figures into one sweep: 'Hard rock scattered with what we would, / rid ourselves of,' flesh desired 'in ashes, equally,' tilting toward 'the almost in good in this Earth, as the slaughter.' Here the saint is pluralized - 'While as children, we were all the saint with the sword' - and the worship 'decending as all others trick of Christ' is named 'OUR CURSE.' It ends turned inward, 'the slashing of the obstacle for that only view, / of thyself, of which EVEN our granite / has no perception.' This reading remains provisional because the page is OCR-uncertain and flagged needs-followup.